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I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.

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It's really scary or it's easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don't provide any substance to it.

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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers - that is what should be happening in America.

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Getting America Truck Democrats Drivers Happening Sanitation Should

The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn't be afraid to be bold.

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We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.

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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.

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I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.

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Age Diversity Congress Too

Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.

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Think Somewhere Than Rather Bronx Invest Run

Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.

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World Will Capitalism Always Exist Existed

I'm an educator. I'm an organizer.

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Educator Organizer

Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.

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Nothing Champion Want Moral American Clarity Clear Radical Working-Class About

We absolutely do need to make sure that our borders are secure. But what we need to realize and remember is that ICE was established in 2003 right at the same time as the Patriot Act, the AUMF, the Iraq War - and we look back at a lot of that time and legislation as a mistake now. And I think that ICE is right there as a part of it.

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I don't think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.

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Die Think Live Poor America Any Person Should Too Because

I don't think most of Congress understands how economics works.

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Think Economics Most Congress Understands Works How

The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education.

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I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe's bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.

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Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.

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Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I'm not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.

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I'm very hands-on about social media. That's my voice.

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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.

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I don't like having people do little things for me.

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Me People Little Things Like Having Little Things

I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.

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I'm not running from the left; I'm running from the bottom. I'm running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.

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I know what it's like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.

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It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters.

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